MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH MARCH 2023 (HELD ON 26 March, 2023)

 

MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH MARCH 2023 (HELD ON 26 March, 2023)

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Direction (Q. Nos. 1-4) : Read the passage and answer the questions given below it :

The Life Divine is a masterpiece that reveals Sri Aurobindo’s vivid deliberation and divine creativity about ‘human consciousness’. It is the source of relentless human activity and development. This paper spotlights the literary promise of fresh contemplative ways on the work of Sri Aurobindo as a spiritual discourse. Sri Aurobindo’s exposure to the higher dynamics in the philosophy of thought empowered him to deal with the interesting topic of individual and collective psyche at universal level with great ease. The word ‘eternity’ in this context suggests the boundless freedom of powerful human consciousness that has supremacy over perceived human conceptions dispelling the unwanted to enter the blissful arena of eternity of human expression. Eventually, it leads all of us to reach the pinnacle of Sri Aurobindo’s unfathomable expressions. The Life Divine discusses the conception of higher aesthetics envisaged by Sri Aurobindo as a seer. The indefatigable spirit of the seer enriches every sphere of description as he explained it in his The Future Poetry. According to Aurobindo ‘‘the most pronounced force of expression’’ takes its flight from ‘‘the subtle plane through the creative vital’’ as it uses the outer mind and other external instruments for transmission only. The Life Divine is a consummate example for his ability of creating the limitless vision of truth and power of human consciousness, without employing any artificial enforcing machinery in the process of transmission.



1. What is not a feature of human consciouness ?

(A) freedom

(B) eternity

(C) perceived knowledge

(D) seamlessness



2. The Life Divine exalts and envisages :

(A) perceived human conceptions

(B) consciousness of the material world

(C) social relations

(D) knowledge of spiritual truth



3. In The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo leaves his mark as a :

(A) literary artist

(B) visionary saint

(C) social reformer

(D) historical critic



4. The word ‘expression’ in the passage is not related to :

(A) aesthetic expression

(B) creative expression

(C) transcendental expression

(D) rational expression



5. The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography is a feminist re-appraisal of the work of

Marquis de Sade. Name the author.

(A) Kate Millett

(B) Catherine Belsey

(C) Angela Carter

(D) Judith Butler



6. A.S. Byatt’s Possession : A Romance returns to the :

(A) Old English period

(B) Victorian period

(C) Middle English period

(D) Restoration period



7. There are two kinds of morphemes :

(A) closed morpheme and open morpheme

(B) bound morpheme and free morpheme

(C) bound morpheme and closed morpheme

(D) free morpheme and open morpheme



8. Which of the following was not written by Simone de Beauvoir ?

(A) The Second Sex

(B) The Ethics of Ambiguity

(C) Adieux : A Farewell to Sartre

(D) The Female Eunuch



9. ‘‘Love your enemy, bless your haters. Said the greatest of the great’’.

Who said the above statement ?

(A) Alfred Tennyson

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) Robert Browning

(D) Charles Dickens



10. Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield was first published in :

(A) 1932

(B) 1933

(C) 1934

(D) 1935



11. Richard Hoggart established :

(A) School of Drama

(B) Practical Criticism Centre

(C) Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Studies

(D) Romantic School of Poetry



12. In The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing :

(A) examines sexual and women’s liberation movements

(B) provides an analysis of communism

(C) contains powerful anti-war messages

(D) explores the trauma of a middle class woman



13. ‘‘It’s when I’m weary of consideration,

And life is too much like a pathless wood

....... I’d like to get away from earth a while

and then come back to it and begin over’’.

Whose lines are these ?

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) Edger Alan Poe

(C) Robert Frost

(D) Emily Dickinson



14. In ‘‘Night of the Scorpion’’ Ezekiel represents the superstitious attitude of :

(A) Indian women

(B) Indian boys

(C) Indian peasants

(D) Indian parents



15. Who authored The Twice Born Fiction ?

(A) Shyamala A. Narayan

(B) P. Lal

(C) Meenakshi Mukherjee

(D) Mahadevi Varma



16. Communicative Language Teaching is :

(A) teacher focused

(B) materials focused

(C) experience focused

(D) student focused



17. Who translated Derrida’s Of Grammatology in English ?

(A) Homi Bhabha

(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Ferdinaad de Saussure

(D) Jacques Lacan



18. Who coined the term Gynocriticism ?

(A) Mary Shelley

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) Elaine Showalter

(D) Kate Millett



19. The famous term ‘culture industry’ was coined by :

(A) Theodore Adorno

(B) George Lukacs

(C) Stuart Hall

(D) Roland Barthes



20. What is the pen name of Charles Lamb ?

(A) Amelia

(B) Eric Blair

(C) Elia

(D) Alpha of the Plough



21. Who first used the term ‘‘metaphysical’’ for Donne and his followers ?

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) George Chapman

(D) Cowley



22. Blank verse consists of :

(A) Iambic pentameter which are unrhymed

(B) Iambic pentameter which are rhymed

(C) Iambic hexameter which are rhymed

(D) Iambic hexameter which are Unrhymed



23. Who has remarked that his endeavour is ‘to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality’ ?

(A) Richard Steele

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Samuel Johnson

(D) Daniel Defoe



24. ‘The Harmonie of the Church’ is authored by :

(A) William Shakespeare

(B) Sir Philip Sidney

(C) Michael Drayton

(D) John Milton



25. A unit of three lines of verse that rhyme together is called :

(A) Trimet

(B) Tercet

(C) Triplet

(D) Tricet



26. Contrapuntal reading—a reading strategy that brings out the contradictions built into the text— was developed by :

(A) Louis Althusser

(B) Edward Said

(C) I.A. Richards

(D) Cleanth Brooks



27. Who, among the following, is not a prose-writer ?

(A) Roy Campbell

(B) A. E. Coppard

(C) Lord Dunsany

(D) Somerset Maugham



28. Thomas Hardy’s Dynasts is a/an

(A) Play

(B) Novel

(C) Epic poem

(D) Collection of Lyrics



29. The concept of deep structure and surface structure was given by :

(A) Whorf

(B) Sapier

(C) Halliday

(D) Chomsky



30. Identify the figure of speech in the following lines :

An hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;

Two hundred to adore each Breast :

But thirty thousand for the rest.

(A) Irony

(B) Metonymy

(C) Hyperbole

(D) Oxymoron



31. ‘Down Cemetery Road’ is the title of D. J. Enright’s article on the poetry of :

(A) William Empson

(B) Philip Larkin

(C) Sylvia Plath

(D) Charles Tomlinson



32. Identify the autobiographical novel written by George Eliot :

(A) The Mill on the Floss

(B) Adam Bede

(C) Daniel Deronda

(D) Middle March



33. Sancho Panza is a fictional character from :

(A) Don Quixote

(B) Waiting for Godot

(C) Caligula

(D) Iliad



34. Which of the following American play had 742 performances and has been revived on Broadway four

times ?

(A) All My Sons

(B) The Glass Menagerie

(C) Death of a Salesman

(D) A 200’s Story



35. Curries and other Indian dishes is a work of :

(A) R.K. Narayan

(B) Mulk Raj Anand

(C) Rudyard Kipling

(D) Vikram Seth



36. All About H. Hatterr is written by :

(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya

(B) Anita Desai

(C) G.V. Desani

(D) Manju Kaur



37. Which of the following texts can be classified as belonging to the Middle English literature ?

(A) Caedmon’s Hymn, Beowulf

(B) The Fairie Queene, Astrophel and Stella, The Spanish Tragedy

(C) Volpone, The White Devil, The Changeling

(D) Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales



38. Shelley defends poetry against the attack of :

(A) Robert Southey

(B) Walter Scott

(C) Thomas Love Peacock

(D) Samuel T. Coleridge



39. Which of the following groups of words contains only open syllables ?

(A) baby, plain, say, wait

(B) truck, bed, sock, happen

(C) table, no, enemy, foe

(D) hit, keep, ask, hold



40. Which among the following poets has written the lines :

‘‘Bliss was it that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) Robert Southey

(C) Lord Byron

(D) Thomas De Quincey



41. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds.

The above lines are from a sonnet by :

(A) William Shakespeare

(B) Sir Thomas Wyatt

(C) Edmund Spenser

(D) Sir Philip Sydney



42. Who was the architect and stage designer who had provided the sets for Ben Jonson’s masques ?

(A) John Webster

(B) Inigo Jones

(C) John Ford

(D) George Chapman



43. Who calls his novels ‘comic epic poem in prose’ ?

(A) Daniel Defoe

(B) Henry Fielding

(C) Laurence Sterne

(D) Samuel Richardson



44. Touchstone is a famous character in William Shakespeare’s ................

(A) All’s Well That Ends Well

(B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(C) As You Like It

(D) Twelfth Night



45. ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’’ is written by :

(A) Walter Scott

(B) Lord Byron

(C) Thomas De Quincey

(D) William Blake



46. Among the four statements given below, only one statement is correct. Identify the correct one :

(A) New criticism considers text as a cultural construct

(B) New criticism considers text as a product of history

(C) New criticism considers text as a repository of authorial intentions

(D) New criticism considers text as an autonomous, ontological and organic whole



47. The exemplar and mentor of ‘‘liberal humanism’’ in England was :

(A) Samuel Johnson

(B) John Dryden

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) Matthew Arnold



48. ‘‘I’ve known her from an ample nation Choose one;

Then close the valves of her attention Like stone’’.

These are the lines of Emily Dickinson’s poem :

(A) I’m Nobody! Who are you ?

(B) I Felt a Funeral in My brain

(C) The Soul Selects Her own Society

(D) The Day came slow, till Five o’clock



49. A foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable is called :

(A) Anapestic

(B) Trochaic

(C) Iambic

(D) Dactylic



50. Aphorism and epigram are the distinguishing features of the prose style of :

(A) Francis Bacon

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Richard Steele

(D) Charles Lamb



51. Who among the following can be said to be the dramatist of the Victorian Age ?

(A) George Bernard Shaw

(B) Oscar Wilde

(C) Thomas Malory

(D) Charles Dickens



52. Who said, ‘‘it is healthier to read TitBits than Tennyson’s Idylls of the King’’ ?

(A) George Orwell

(B) Samuel Backett

(C) Kingsley Amis

(D) J.M. Synge



53. Which one of the following novels is a part of Lawrence Durrell’s ‘Avignon Quintet’ ?

(A) Clea

(B) Sebastian

(C) Montolive

(D) Balthazar



54. The realisation of a morpheme in terms of a phoneme is called :

(A) morphophonemics

(B) phonemics

(C) semantics

(D) pragmatics



55. Which is not a work of Franz Kafka ?

(A) The Metamorphosis

(B) Caucasian Chalk Circle

(C) The Trial

(D) The Judgement



56. The scene wherein the narrator is

transported to his childhood while

he tastes a madeleine dipped in tea,

appears in :

(A) War and Peace

(B) Remembrance of Things Past

(C) Alice in Wonderland

(D) Sons and Lovers



57. Which poet said that he created poetry which attained the end of blood, imagination, intellect, running together’ ?

(A) W.B. Yeats

(B) Coventry Patmore

(C) C. Day Lewis

(D) George Barker



58. Who wrote Daniel Deronda ?

(A) George Eliot

(B) Jane Austen

(C) Emily Brontë

(D) Charlotte Brontë



59. Cyril Dabydeen is a/an :

(A) Australian playwright

(B) Canadian poet

(C) African novelist

(D) American dramatist



60. The term ‘Diaspora’ comes from :

(A) Latin

(B) French

(C) Greek

(D) Scandinavian



61. Which of these is not a translation of the Bible into English ?

(A) Caxton’s Bible

(B) Tyndale’s Bible

(C) King James Version

(D) Wycliffe’s Bible



62. A diphthong is :

(A) an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

(B) a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable

(C) unaccented syllables pronounced with little or no stress

(D) a low pitch having a low frequency sound



63. Who amongst the following is not a primary practitioner of deconstruction ?

(A) Paul de Man

(B) Barbara Johnson

(C) Georg Lukacs

(D) J. Hillis Miller



64. Who in ‘‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’’ by Dryden represents the Ancients ?

(A) Lisideius

(B) Crites

(C) Eugenius

(D) J. Dryden



65. Which poem of Tennyson is critiqued as anti-feminist ?

(A) ‘‘The Princess’

(B) ‘‘Maud’’

(C) ‘‘In Memorium’’

(D) ‘‘Idylls of the King’’



66. What term does Keats use for the Grecian Urn ?

(A) Doctor

(B) Sociologist

(C) Artist

(D) Historian



67. Which poem opens with the line ‘‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’’ ?

(A) A Valediction : forbidding mourning

(B) The Canonization

(C) The Extasie

(D) Twicknam Garden



68. In which play does the plot deal with a city goldsmith’s two apprentices and his two daughters, the younger sweet and modest and the elder foolish and worldly ?

(A) Eastward Hoe

(B) The Malcontent

(C) The Four Prentices of London

(D) A Trick to Catch the Old one



69. Samuel Johnson called John Donne a metaphysical poet in :

(A) Life of Gray

(B) Life of Cowley

(C) Life of Pope

(D) Life of Dryden



70. Identify the printer credited for issuing the two prints, ‘Beer Street’ and ‘Gin Lane’ :

(A) Richard Hogarth

(B) William Hogarth

(C) Joshua Reynolds

(D) Michelangelo



71. Who was responsible for Britain’s first organised detective police force, the Bow Street Runners ?

(A) Fielding

(B) Smollett

(C) Richardson

(D) Sterne



72. The Massacre of Paris is authored by :

(A) Thomas Nashe

(B) Robert Greene

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) David Lodge



73. ‘A View of the Present State of Ireland’ is written by :

(A) Sir Philip Sidney

(B) Robert Greene

(C) Edmund Spenser

(D) Thomas Dekker



74. The journal The Tatler was founded by :

(A) Richard Steele

(B) Samuel Johnson

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) John Dryden

75. Who said ‘‘No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone’’ ?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) I.A. Richards

(C) F.R. Leavis

(D) Raymond Williams



76. Who among the following is not a Caribbean writer ?

(A) Pablo Neruda

(B) Marlon James

(C) Derek Walcott

(D) V.S. Naipaul



77. In which poem do the following lines occur ?

‘‘Fail I alone, in words and deeds ?

Why, all men strive and who succeeds ?’’

(A) ‘‘My Last Duchess’’

(B) ‘‘The Last Ride Together’’

(C) ‘‘In Memoriam’’

(D) ‘‘Ulysses’



78. Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood was originally a :

(A) Street play

(B) Restoration play

(C) Victorian play

(D) Radio play

79. What figure of speech has been used by Dryden to make fun of Shadwell in the following lines :

Sh ........ alone my perfect image bears,

Mature in dullness from his tender years.

Sh ......... alone, of all my Sons, is he

Who stands confirmed in full stupidity.

(A) Transferred epithet

(B) Synecdoche

(C) Juxtaposition

(D) Metonymy



80. Who is the author of The Sense of An Ending ?

(A) Julian Barnes

(B) Ian McEwan

(C) Harold Fry

(D) John Niven



81. A fricative sound is produced with :

(A) a stricture of open approximation

(B) a flap

(C) nasal passage open

(D) a stricture of close approximation



82. Falstaff is a character in William Shakespeare’s ...................

(A) The Merry Wives of Windsor

(B) Twelfth Night

(C) As You Like It

(D) The Winter’s Tale



83. Which novel opens with the following famous line : ‘‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’’ ?

(A) Pride and Prejudice

(B) Anna Karenina

(C) Wuthering Heights

(D) Mayor of Casterbridge



84. Following was one of the pioneering theorists of cultural studies in Britain :

(A) I.A. Richards

(B) Walter Pater

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) C.S. Lewis



85. An annual anthology called Wheels was published by :

(A) Wyndham Lewis, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

(B) Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell

(C) Humbert Wolfe, Herbert Read and Lascelles Abercrombie

(D) W.J. Turner, Louis Macneice and Sir John Squire



86. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was rendered into English poetry by :

(A) William Cowper

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) Stephen Spender

(D) Edward FitzGerald



87. Who was the first to translate the Mahabharata into English ?

(A) K.M. Ganguli

(B) Ram Nath Kak

(C) Dilip Chitre

(D) Charles Wilkins



88. An epic poem in Old English verse is :

(A) Odyssey

(B) Beowulf

(C) Paradise Lost

(D) Iliad



89. The belief that a second language can be taught in the same way as the learner’s first language by using only the target language; forms the basis for the :

(A) Audio-Lingual Method

(B) Functional Method

(C) Direct or Natural Method

(D) Communicative Method





90. ‘‘The Panopticon,’’ according to Foucault ‘‘was also a laboratory’’. It cannot be used :

(A) as a machine to carry out experiments

(B) to alter behaviour

(C) to ameliorate the condition of the individual

(D) to correct individuals



91. Which literary critic compares the poet’s mind to a catalytic agent ?

(A) Terry Eagleton

(B) Dryden

(C) Coleridge

(D) T.S. Eliot



92. Who among the following is not a New Critic ?

(A) John Crowe Ransom

(B) Cleanth Brooks

(C) Allen Tate

(D) Northrop Frye



93. Who among the following belongs to the Bloomsbury group ?

(A) W.H. Auden

(B) John Wain

(C) Martin Amis

(D) Virginia Woolf



94. The title of a book is :

(A) placed in inverted commas

(B) underlined in printing

(C) italicized in printing

(D) placed in single inverted commas



95. In the title which words begin with capital letters ?

(A) Grammatical words

(B) Content words

(C) Prepositions

(D) Conjunctions



96. Writers achieve the goals of documentation by providing :

(A) information in a chaotic manner

(B) insufficient information

(C) information in a comprehensible manner

(D) information in a complex Manner



Direction (Q. Nos. 97-100) : Read the following poem and answer the questions given below it :

It started as a pilgrimage,

Exalting minds and making all

The burden light. The second stage

Explored but did not test the call.

The sun beat down to match our rage.

But when the differences arose

On how to cross a desert patch

We lost a friend whose stylish prose

Was quite the best of all our batch.

A shadow falls on us–and grows.

When, finally, we reached the place,

We hardly knew why we were there.

The trip had darkened every face,

Our deeds were neither great nor rare.

Home is where we have to gather grace.



97. The tone of the poet is :

(A) Pessimistic

(B) Positive

(C) Doubtful

(D) Philosophical



98. The poet is referring to :

(A) his daily prayers

(B) religious matters

(C) political issues

(D) moral concerns



99. The first two lines of the last stanza deal with :

(A) an irony

(B) a dilemma

(C) an assertion

(D) an observation



100. The poet longs for :

(A) outings

(B) tourist places

(C) friendship

(D) homely stay

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